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Jeffrey Goldberg is a columnist for Bloomberg View writing about the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy and national affairs. He is a national correspondent for the Atlantic, the author of "Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror" and a winner of the National Magazine Award for reporting. He has also covered the Middle East as a staff writer for the New Yorker. Goldberg began his career at the Washington Post. He later wrote a column for the Jerusalem Post, covered the Mafia for New York magazine, and wrote for several years for the New York Times Magazine. He has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a fellow of the Jerusalem Foundation. He was born in New York, and now lives in Washington with his wife and three children.

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The American University of Beirut's Center for American Studies and Research -- whose main benefactor is Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud -- is holding a conference this week. "Transnational American Studies" is the theme, and I thought I'd share some of the topics to be discussed. (Michael Doran, at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy, originally pointed me to this conference's existence.)

The academics attending the conference, as a rule, are highly critical of the U.S. and of its role in the world. They also seem quite opposed to the existence of Lebanon's southern neighbor: Israel.